madamepsychosis

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Profile: The Google Founders [2004](news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by madamepsychosis 13y ago|0 comments
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/ London/ Berlin iOS & Ruby on Rails. Familiar with graphics & non-ARC iPhone apps. Contact: sp668@cam.ac.uk
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
Also: The Age of Gold by HW Brands- a really fun history of the California gold rush.
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, if you have 90 hours or so to kill "On Numbers & Games" is a fun maths book
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
Could you link us to something explaining the number & the throw? (BTW I saw your talk as a kid, though before I knew any real maths. Very fun!)
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
I remember waking up whilst learning about animation and thinking that I couldn't move because I had set up the world, view, projection matrices but not the model matrices for my legs and arms.
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
SEEKING WORK, iOS & RoR developer, have most experience in prototyping. I am a student at Cambridge so I can only work with you until mid-January. Email me sp668@cam.ac.uk. London area or remote.
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Show HN: My first app, a reverse to-do list(itunes.apple.com)
9 points by madamepsychosis 14y ago|4 comments
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
For what it's worth, I would pay to use a service like this. Obviously the chicken and egg problem is the tough part here.
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
Second that!
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
May I recommend Max Weber's "The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"?
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Five Books for Hacker News(theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com)
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
It's not really true, but I've always thought of it as a slogan to dispel irrational fear around trying something new. In that it has it's use.
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Setting, not game mechanics, is the key to video game storytelling(theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com)
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
^This. It's not that exclusively women have these problems, it's that they have them to a greater extent than men because of centuries-old ideas about how women and men should act. Articles like these are just saying it'd be nice if we made
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by madamepsychosis 14y ago
On a related note: the UK startup Growington is doing a great job. http://growington.com/
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
I'm Saku, student and self-taught iOS/Ruby on Rails developer and 3D graphics programmer looking for a summer job July-September this year. I live near London, but I'm willing to travel if you help with a visa. (I speak decent German and a
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
I wrote a blog post on the subject, though it's not very polished. http://theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com/post/14141908437/sta...
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
Any London hackers who want to get involved with a charitable project should check out Interactivism. http://simpl.co/interactivism/YP
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
No, not unless you say you're about to kill yourself.
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Mega-Cities + Mobile Internet = Our ticket to the post-scarcity world(theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com)
4 points by madamepsychosis 15y ago|0 comments
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
Scott Aaronson has a really good article about the anthtopic principle and conditional probability. http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html
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Alice in Wonderland laughs at non-Euclidean geometry(networkawesome.com)
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
And here's a great video of a sphere being turned inside out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNY
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Show HN: Recoloring Images(theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com)
8 points by madamepsychosis 15y ago|2 comments
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Twitter and Evolutionary Stable Strategies(theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com)
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
Is this a good example of information asymmetry?
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
Maybe there's another cause: a huge mismatch between the skills needed and the skills provided by schools. Schools were designed for the industrial era, not the post-industrial era etc. etc. etc....
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by madamepsychosis 15y ago
*Wife or husband.

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